The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-20
AN ENTERPRIslNo LADY.
now She Utilized Her Housekeeping
knowledge to Good Advantage.

now She Utilized Her Housekeeping
knowledge to Good Advantage.
A new industry for women is be.
ginning to evolve itself in New York.
which may yet do much toward solving
the vexcd servant-girl question. Some
three months ago woman of a good
old New York family. educated and
capable, left widow without money,
and having served no apprenticeship
to any of the industries by which
women earn bread and butter. began
to think of putting her pride in her
pocket and turning her notable house,
keeping talents to account by looking
for service in a family as cook.
Considering the matter further, it
occurred to her that she could do bet
ter. Securing with some little effort,
the project being novel one, CLIENT
ago of half dozen families in her im-
mediate neighborhood that were groan.
ing under dyspepsia, induced by light
housekeeping" she began to send out,
three times a day, delicately cooked
and daintily served meals. Her vent
ure was so Immediately successful
that she looked up New England
housekeeper and a couple of stout
armed Swedish girls to help her, and
her business sprang, almost in single
night, to the utmost dimensions that
she could handle. Families that had
tried the frizzled steak broiled by the
green girl, families that were starving
on meals elaborated over the flicker
ing gas jet, families that had eaten
stable board' in the basement dining,
room around the corner, families whose
pocketbooks groaned at the expense Of
the waiter load sent in from hotel OF
restaurant, families whose heads were
business women without time for cook.
ing, families tired Of the annoyance Of
servants in . small fiat were glad to
be supplied with home cooking, varied.
palatable and at reasonable price.
She has twenty-one families on hel
list at present. ] think. to whom she
supplies just that wholesome round Of
breakfasts, lunches and dinners that
the average house mother would offer
to husband and little folks. Fruit in
season, in the morning, oatmeal or
wheaton grits, fish, steak or chops; a
side dish, such as stewed kidneys, sau.
sage, liver and bacon, eggs; coffee, tea
or chocolate, bread and butter, milk
and sugar. Soup, fish. a roast, three
vegetables, dessert and coffee make up
the dinner. all of which Is sent out mt
cost of seven dollars week to single
person, five dollars each for members
of families, though what is supplied
for two is sufficient for three. the cost
per household is not reckoned in
multiples Of that sum. In a way the
experiment is one of cooperative
housekeeping, for, practically, the
cost of everyday living is divided
among number of families. purchases
for all being made together, the labol
for all systcmatized and simplited. and
the waste of all minlmized, the result
being that each family saves nearly
the full amount Of its cooks wages,
and is freed from the tyranny Of Castle
Garden besides.
Two other women. emulous of the
first, talk of starting similar enter.
prises. The scheme is in its infancy,
but whenever q sufficient number OF
families within radius of block o,
two, as near the great fat houses, can
be interested in it, it has promise Of an
opening for an industry for women
and of relief from divers perplexit;es
for the families they serve. Eliza
Putnam Heaton. in Brooklyn Times.